Portrait of the Artist as an Older Person

The school art assignment was to draw oneself as an older person. This was my daughter’s execution, which she proudly displayed at her school art show last night.

As for myself, I’m trying once again to take a breath by blogging. I admire Robin’s style, in which she both displays nuns in tan and discusses her plumbing traumas. My events of the week involved two down servers, both effecting sites that I work on, both now back up and running again. Is it the season to upgrade PHP perhaps? In one case I called the help desk; the line declared a fifteen minute wait. I hung up, then called back a few minutes later, thinking, I can wait fifteen minutes to find out what the problem is. The line then declared a one hour wait. I waited until the next day, until it was fixed. But then the other server went down, and that one I had to report about ten times before they fixed all the issues. Such as is the life of a webmaster (webmaven?).

Very nice self portrait–the eyes have an interesting pensive quality. I was particularly taken in general with the portraits in the art show–I didn’t realize that they were supposed to be self portraits. That makes the pictures so much more interesting (I wish I had known that).

As for the blogging workshop, I think blog design/aesthetics and platform choices are worthwhile topics. Also the relationship between blogging and facebook, pinterest, twitter. But, I think that the “why” is the most important topic. If you don’t have a clear idea of why you are blogging and a clear idea of audience, you are unmoored.